The Labor enquirer., 1887-09-24
EXPERIENCE TEACHES.
The "Anarchlst" Trials Teach Us
to Dis rust the Capital.
ist Press.
Let worklngmcn Learn That They
Lie for the Very Lust
OF Lying.

For the ENQUIRER
Most of us remember the trial
and execution of the Molly Ma
guires. The trial of the anarchists
has thrown new light on that mat
ter. The hideous pictures pub
lished in the capitalistic press and
believed to be "true llkenesses OF
the anarchists explains why all
the Molly Mcguire. true like
nesses," so-called, represented
vicious, hideous looking men. !
now begin to believe that the
Molly Maguires were in fact brave,
honest and fine looking men, as |
know the anarchists to be by act
nal acquaintance.
There is no place on earth where
men are robbed more or treated
worse than in the Pennsylvania
coal mines. Allowed to earn no
more wages than the company
consumes through the truck store,
they are thus always kept penni-
less, and living in the company's
shanties, they are always liable to
be turned out with wife and chill
dren to freeze or starve, and the
united monopolies always ready
to blacklist the discharged man
for miles around, and the COM
pany did, no doubt then as now,
namely, turn afamily out of doors,
then allow no one to assist or be-
friend them under penalty of the
same dose, and allow no team to
enter the premises to carry away
the poor miners scanty furniture
or bedding or sick wife or sick
child as was done recently. The
companies, no doubt, did then as
now, paid nothing for screenings,
vet used a screen that let half the
coal fall through which fine coal
they sold at even more than they
got for the coarse coal, yet pay
the poor miners nothing for mining
this so-called screenings. The
companies then no doubt did as
they do now, hired such mine
bosses as would drive and hussle
the men like dogs from morning
until night. Most of the poor
miners were no doubt then as now
cheated and deluded into coming
to this country, away-yes, 5000
miles away-from home and
friends, and even il they could
write back. couldn't get money
enough to buy a postage stamp
a stranger in the country and per-
haps also unable to speak the Ian.
guage. Helpless, penniless galley
slaves or worse, what could they
!. do2 Under this inhuman pressure
, what would they naturally do, cs.
pecially if a spark of manliness
still remained in them. Certainly
they could unite and must be
secret in their union. and being
united they would naturally tell
their grievances, and telling them
To an abused crowd would naturally
inname them to violence. t takes
money to appeal to court, SC
they were shut off from that. They
were poor and consequently as
pennilcss aspoverty always makes
a person. What could they doi
What would you do in this posi-
tion2 For my part. had ! been in
such position as now believe
they were, | should have done my
utmost to organize secret band
strong enough to have killed each
and every one of my tormenters.
No man under such conditions
who had any manhood in him
would do less. Standing like a
cur while himself. wife and chill
dren are suffering the torments OF
the damned to satisfy the greed
of money makers, is not the Chris
tian duty of any man.
Reading as | did the capitalistic
tales about the Molly Maguires,
and the so-called brave and manly
work of the Pinkertons in hunting
them down, | thought the Pinker-